Titel: Are you ready for the island?
When we decided to emigrate we faced the question-WHERE?
At first we thought Antigua and Barbuda would be a good choice, but I wasn't ready for the island yet.
Als wir uns entschlossen hatten auszuwandern standen wir vor der Frage-WOHIN?
Zuerst dachten wir, daß Antigua und Babuda eine gute Wahl ist, aber ich war noch nicht bereit für die Insel.
The advantage is that you speak English in Antigua, but there is left-hand traffic there and I want to talk about that today.
Der Vorteil ist, daß man auf Antigua englisch spricht, aber es herrscht dort Linksverkehr und darüber möchte ich heute sprechen.
Left-hand traffic also prevails in Malta
Auch auf Malta herrscht Linksverkehr
A third of the world's population drives on the supposedly wrong side of the road. Left-hand traffic is common in 58 countries, but why?
Ein Drittel der Weltbevölkerung fährt auf der vermeintlich falschen Seite der Straße. Insgesamt in 58 Ländern gibt es Linksverkehr, aber warum?
Most of the population is and was right-handed, so you carried your sword on the left side to be able to draw it better. At that time the horse got off the horse on the left side, so you were protected from the rest of the traffic on the left side of the road. The pedestrians ran on the right side of the street.
Der größte Teil der Bevölkerung ist und war rechtshändig, also trug man sein Schwert auf der linken Seite, um es besser ziehen zu können. Auch das absteigen vom Pferd erfolgte damals über die linke Seite, somit war man vor dem übrigen Verkehr am linken Straßenrand geschützt. Die Fußgänger liefen auf der rechten Straßenseite.
Napoleon officially passed legal traffic in 1789.
However, some countries did not stick to it and remained on the left-hand side.
Napoleon erließ per Gesetz im Jahr 1789 offiziell den Rechtsverkehr.
Einige Länder hielten sich aber nicht daran und blieben beim Linksverkehr.
"We cannot direct the wind. But we can adjust the sails." (Wir können den Wind nicht ändern, aber wir können die Segel richtig setzen.) Aristotle
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Until recently (a few years ago, I can't remember exactly) the rail traffic in Austria still ran on the left side. I am there now, but before, I worked in Canada for decades, and there, wherever more than one track, the rail traffic is also on the left.
I also lived in Sweden in the sixties, when they finally switched road traffic from left to right. Subsequently, there were some head-on collisions on rural roads. In Stockholm, the interchange at Slussen became a nightmare to navigate.
Here is a fun report from the day this change happened: Switching from left- to right-hand-side driving was a national ordeal
Just seen this myself, since I was curious: they are massively re-building Slussen, but won't be finished until 2025.
At the time, I got an international driver's license to drive a car in Cape Town and later in Sydney, but I didn't, I was too afraid of myself that I couldn't switch mentally and cause an accident. Have you ever driven in left-hand traffic?
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Antigua looks amazing :)) @gigiii maybe we should visit it :)